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Amos Worthen, Sr. was born on October 31, 1813, at Bradford, Vermont, the son of Thomas Worthen, an enterprising farmer, and Susannah Adams, who is said to have been a direct descendant of Henry Adams, the founder of the distinguished Adams family in America.
Worthen, Sr. was educated at Bradford Academy.
In August 1834, he moved to Kentucky, but before the year was out he was teaching school in Cumminsville, Ohio. In June 1836, he moved to Warsaw, Illinois, and there, with his wife's brothers, he entered the dry-goods business. In 1842 he moved to Boston, probably because of the business depression in Warsaw engendered by Mormon difficulties in the county. In Illinois he had been greatly attracted by the geode beds and other geological features in the Warsaw area. When he went east, he took with him several barrels of the geodes; but instead of selling them at the fancy prices they then commanded, he traded them for a cabinet of sea-shells that he realized at once were related to forms preserved in the shales and limestones of his adopted state. In attempting to learn more about these fossils, he stumbled onto Dr. Gideon Mantell's The Medals of Creation and The Wonders of Geology, and his study of these books crystallized in him the desire to become a scientist. When he returned to Warsaw in July 1844, he became more and more engrossed in geology, and at last he retired from business, though with financial loss. In the meantime, his collections had grown apace, and he was becoming well known to eastern scientists. Many of his specimens were borrowed by James Hall of Albany and were described in the latter's account of the paleontology of Iowa. After the establishment of a geological survey of Illinois, Worthen, Sr. found sporadic employment under the direction of J. G. Norwood, but it was not until 1855 that he began his first active geological duties, under Hall on the Iowa survey. Meanwhile the Illinois survey work had languished. When in 1858 Worthen, Sr. was appointed state geologist, there were turned over to him a single report on the lead mines of Hardin County and a few field notes. With his own great energy and a great deal of enthusiasm on the part of some of the ablest specialists of his day, whom he was sagacious enough to hire, he soon turned a moribund bureau into an organization seething with activity. During his term of office he published seven large volumes of the Geological Survey of Illinois (8 vols. , 1866 - 1890), and had the material for the eighth ready for the press at the time of his death. Considering that the geological work of the state was completed, he intended to resign when the last volume was printed. Judged by later standards the work had scarcely begun, but every county in the state had been considered in the reports, and the state's major mineral resources had been outlined. A much more lasting contribution to science made in Worthen's, Sr. publications was the description of 1626 species of fossils, comprising 1073 invertebrate animals, 297 vertebrates, and 256 plants. Nearly 1500 of these were described for the first time in these volumes, and all were beautifully illustrated. Worthen, Sr. himself was chiefly interested in the classification of the Lower Carboniferous strata, and he is still regarded by many as the pioneer in this important stratigraphic work.
Amos Henry Worthen died on May 6, 1888, at Warsaw, Illinois.
Amos Henry Worthen, Sr. was the second state geologist of Illinois and the first curator of the Illinois State Museum, whose the most important discoveries were among the lower carboniferous, and in this connection he made some remarkable paleontological discoveries of fish remains and terrestrial flora. On January 16, 1863, Amos Worthen, Sr. was made an honorary member of the American Philosophical Society and on April 17, 1872, he was made a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Amos Worthen, Sr. was elected to a number of European as well as American honorary societies, among them the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Sciences.
On January 14, 1834, Amos Worthen married Sarah Burnham Kimball, by whom he had seven children.
